Familiar story - a band's first 3 albums being great, then everything else not so great because it's simplified and more radio friendly.
The real irony here is that the early NWoBHM bands of any note all started out playing unique and complex music. Even Saxon (eg Frozen Rainbow/Rainbow Theme) and Def Leppard (eg Lady Strange). OK, maybe not so much Def Leppard - but their first album is still noticeably more interesting than anything that followed.
Other bands of that time had such unique signatures that it's a crying shame who generic the whole thing became in just a couple of years. Bands like Holocaust, Raven, Mythra and Venom developed their own sounds and styles - but it was all metal, and all good.
I didn't mind Budgie's newer sound, even though it was an obvious case of bandwagon jumping - but I prefer the follow-up Nightflight to Power Supply. They were great at Reading festival in 1982, and the stuff sat well alongside the newer bands
